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Ethiopia officially issued a ten year international bond
Addis Ababa (HAN) October 8, 2014. Public diplomacy and National investment news. Sofian Ahmed, Finance and Economic Development Minister announced on Monday (October 6) that the Government plans to issue international bonds at the end of the year. This is the first time the country has moved to join the international capital market and it…
Ethiopia briefed Swiss Secretary on the current security in Somalia
Addis Ababa (HAN) October 8, 2014. Public diplomacy and National security news. Ethiopia State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Berhane Gebre-Christos held discussions with Swiss State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Yves Rossier, on various issues of bilateral and multilateral relations. State Minister Ambassador Berhane noted that Ethiopia and Switzerland have long standing friendly relations at…
Eritrea: PFDJ Resistance against external conspiracies
Kampala (HAN) October 8, 2014. Public diplomacy and National security news. Eritrean diaspora in Kampala city, Uganda, have asserted readiness to mount staunch resistance against external conspiracies on the basis of higher organizational capacity. They made the pledge at a meeting with Mohammed Suleman, the Eritrean Ambassador to Uganda. Speaking at the meeting, the Eritrean…
Uganda: Busoga chiefs, "I urge you to unite", Not like Somalia
KaMPALA (HAN) October 8, 2014. Public diplomacy and National security news. President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has called upon Busoga chiefs in Uganda to unite for the good of the Kingdom and Uganda at large. “I commend the unity among chiefs while electing the Kyabazinga. However, some chiefs are not here, I urge you…
Somalia: Saudi King receives letters from Presidents of Somalia
Riyadh (HAN) October 8, 2014. Public diplomacy and Regional security issues. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received letter from Presidents of Somalia Hassan Shaikh Mahmoud. They were handed over to Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz as he received separately in Jeddah today Somali…
Ethiopia: American Missionary couple attacked in Ethiopia by Rebels
Addis Ababa (HAN) October 5, 2014 – Public diplomacy and Humanitarian missionary news. Emily Griffin, Eyewitness12 news. Kansas. A Christian missionary couple with Kansas ties is recovering in a south African hospital after they were attacked by a group of armed bandits this week in Ethiopia. John and Gwenyth Haspels are second generation missionaries. Though both were raised primarily…
Eritrea: civic leader Berhane, was stabbed to death in Canada
Toronto (HAN) October 5, 2014 – Public diplomacy and Diaspora community news. Again Eritrean community in Toronto, Canada chanted in grief for more than an hour as they honoured the life of slain civic leader Nahom Tsehaie Berhane. The women, wearing traditional white head scarves, wept during the service. The men, in black suits, bowed their…
Somalia: Federal Government thanks US for their commitment towards Security
Mogadishu (HAN) October 5, 2014. Public diplomacy and national security news. The federal Somalia Information minister visited Washington DC to enhance the bi-lateral relations between Somalia and US. Minister Duhulow landed in Washington DC on 28 September 2014 and had meetings with US Government officials which will continue till Friday 3rd October 2014. The Minister…
Somaliland: Without single solution, extremists will become deadly ideological outbreak
Hargeisa (HAN) October 5, 2014. Expert Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine, opinion page By, Ahmed Farah, “Today’s Foreign Policies of the Western World is the reason Islamic Militants are Mushrooming.” For seven years, the Somali American youth leader Abdirizak Bihi has waged a personal battle against an elusive foe: religious extremists using sophisticated…
Ethiopia: Tedros, &International community should urge Eritrea to stop supporting Al-Shabaab
New York (HAN) October 4, 2014. Public diplomacy and National security news. The Ethiopian foreign minister Tedros met with Jeffrey D. Feltman United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs in New York. Geeska Afrika Online received a diplomatic note and the two diplomat’s discussions covered regional and specifically the Horn of African security and peacekeeping operations…
